The latest salvo in an escalating feud between New jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and South Jersey politico George Norcross over the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives in the state—and who has benefited from those incentives—was fired Thursday.

The drama—involving competing task forces, and now competing legal teams made up of well-known lawyers—has engulfed Trenton.

Murphy on Thursday announced that he hired Ted Wells of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York as his administration's counsel in a lawsuit filed earlier in the week by Norcross and several companies over the independent investigation underway by a task force assembled by Murphy to investigate the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's tax incentives programs.